Friday before Mardi Gras our server was crashing. When the issue is too much traffic it isn't necessarily a bad thing but the timing wasn't exactly great.

So after much discussion with our host - OCS Solutions - the decision was to upgrade to a server with multiple instances of the site in an array. Since this is a much more expensive configuration it required reducing the available space for the site.

The main space filler was, of course, nearly 10 years of photos. So the decision was made to reduce the size of the images on an ongoing basis. Additionally I will be going back over old images and reducing their sizes for reposting.

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